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Just about every developer I know has Firefox on their machine, but that's just because our automated tests tend to be written for Firefox. Almost none of the t
by sghill 15y ago
Just about every developer I know has Firefox on their machine, but that's just because our automated tests tend to be written for Firefox. Almost none of the teams I have been a part of use Firefox for development, and even fewer for personal browsing. Chrome's market share grab has been quite impressive.
My most recent experience was with a client who was locked into IE for years, made the switch to Google Apps, and subsequently discovered the speed of Chrome. Phrased as "lots of our users skipped Firefox," it sounded like Firefox was in no-man's land.
- kls 15y agoI personally still use FF as my main development browser, it may be familiarity but I like the development tools in FF more than the ones offered in Chrome. Chrome may have the slight edge in features as far as development tools go, but I find that FF's tools have a better workflow. As well, the new 3D view of the DOM is in and of itself a big reason to use it as a development browser. As the DOM has become more complicated we have desperately needed such a tool to visualize the layering of elements on the page.